North Carolina Newspapers

voia iUtPOM OMOUil oruRiirr S2J0PEBTEAB g* SCHOOL NEWS^ By K. A. Ma(d>oiiald Schools oi thei^ounty got off to a good start last Thursday. Opening day enrollment of 989 as compared to 994 for opening day last year. - The State is expected to take over the pay of the extra teacher at the High' School, as enrollme there is considerably above that of last year.. This year there are 244 pupils as compared to 208 last year. . The only grade with a' lower enrollment is the eighth which has 73 compared to 82 last year. Enrollments for this year and last year at the schools of the county are as follows: Ashemont, 100 both years; Hoke High, 244 and 208; Mildpuson, 74 and 63; Raeford graded 465 and 443; Rock- fish, 106 and 100. r Miss Rebecca Owen, wfeo has been added to the High school music faculty this year, will teach voice in addition to her choraj and public school music work. She has 16 pupils so far.. Band Director JV. O. Melvin re ports a larger turnout this year than last. He expects to have a- bout 50 pieces in the band this year. IMrs. Younger Snead is substi tuting for Mrs. ESrl Robinson this week when one of ^rs. Robinson’s children was sick. Presbyterian Men’s Club Meets The Men of the Church of the Presbyterian church held their firgt, fall - hjeetipg pn .Tuesday evening in the undercroft of the church. A delicious and bounti ful meal was served by Circles four and sey^n of the Woman’s auxiliary. Vice-President Marcus Smith presided at the request of Presi dent Neill _ A. McDonald who had been aV/ay during the preparation for the 'meeting. After (the business had .been transacted ^ Ryan Mc- Bryde was called on to make a report on the Men’s 'conference at Montre^t. Neill A. McDonald also gave a very short report on the conference. Afer the reports Tom MoLauchlin, who had charge of the program, was introduced. The theme of the program was “Finding God Through Worship.’’ Mr. MciLauchlin made the intro ductory statements on worship and then called on K. A. McDonald and M. C. Dew to discuss various phases of worship. After the pro gram the meeting adjourned, to meet again the second Tuesday in October. — 0 Local Guardsmen ToPartic^te In Recmiting Contest Asmaes Post NORTH CAROLINA MAN TO WIN TRIP TO GAME Enlisted men of Battery “A” brth Carolina National Guard, "are completing in a two-month recruiting contest which started on National Guard Day, Septem ber 16, to enlist a quota' of 24 new Tftem'bers in the local unit -and try for a state recruiting prize which will include an airplane trip to .Washington and the Army- Navy football game, the unit com mander announced this week. The unit commander said the local unit, whichnow comprises 83 men, will fia^ 85 percent bf itfr total authorized stren^ of 126 if this quota is obtained. In addition to basic privates, who will be trained in various specialties. Battery “A” will en list World War 11 veterans in their highest wartime grade in-the mil itary specialties in whuA open ings are available in the loch^unit. He said that war veterans^'Sre particularly, wanted to help in the gaining of the younger Guards men. . The state winner of the recruit ing contest will be guest of the War Department on the Washing RECEIVERSHIP HEARING SET FOR SEPTEMBER 25 (From the Fayetteville Observer) M. V. Morgan has been named temporary receiver for the W & W Motor company of R'aeforif by Judge Chester Morris after the filing of a complaint by Marshall Ji. Warren and Mrs. Leone Davey Warren of Fayetteville against Frank E.-Williams and Mrs. Patsy B. Williams. The complaint alleges that the concern is fac^ with bankruptcy as 9 result of Williams’ manage ment and that the plaintiffs are entitled to $25,000 due them as stockholders in the concern. There is scheduled a hearing September 25 before Judge Morris in Fayetteville for the defendants to show cause why the receiver ship should not be made perman ent. ,i FMC Opens Today The Rev. Walker B. Healey, D •D., pastor of the First Prestojderian church of Fayetteville, will de liver .the address at the opening ■ exercises of the 52nd year of Flora Macdonald college, Thursday mor- -nimg, Septemiber 18, at 10:20 o' clock. ' ton trip. With othet state winners he will visit the White House, be entertained at luncheon by Sec retary of Defense Kenneth C. Royall .and .members of Congress,' tour the Capital, attend a New York broadcast of National Guard Assemb^^^fl^-'n•.;j.vor^r^l|i'> pror- gfam^sponsored by the National Guard and starring Paul S^ite- manj and attend the Army^avy gridiron clash in Philadelphia on November 29. As the local has led ail, units in the state in "re cruiting since its organization, a man from it is considered to have an -excellent chance of winning this trip. Men between the ages of 17 and 35 may 'enlist in the National Guard now and participate in the contest themselves. Battery “A” meets every Monday night at eight’ o’clock at the Armory, and men interested in volunteering are urged to attend any weekly meeting. 0 . Tobago Acreage May Be Reduced 20 To 30 Percent Only 8 Defendants In Reorder’s Court Tuesday Morning Danville, Va., Sept. 17—E. Y. Fioyd, heed of the farm food ad ministration for North Carolina and Vii^ginia, says acreage allot- mi^ts throughout the flue-cured tobacco belt may 'be cut 20 to 30 per cent in 1938. . M. A. MORGAN EXPECTS TO TRAVEL TO PROMOTE EXPORTS Raleigh, N. C. Sept. 18—M. A. Morgan, Simithfield, N. C., Johns ton County Agent for the past .jeighf years, has opened headquar ters in Raleigh for his work as Director of Field Service, for To- bacco Associates, the npn-profit group formed, to promote and prp- tect the flue-cured tobacco export market, J. H. Valighn, Elm City, Board Chaiman announced today. The offices will be at 1101 Ral eigh Building, Vaughn sai,d. He pointed out, howe\’er, that Morgan He told a mass tobacc(% meeting of tobacco interests here yesterday the law which makes federal par ity support prices available may force a decline in acreage next year. The final figure, which he estimated at not less than 20 or more than 30 per. cent, will not be known until the present crop has been harvested, Floyd said. He added^that some North Caro lina groups were advocatingya cut of up to -SS |»er cent in next year’s acreage. .r. The meeting advocated two steps to prevent drastic price de clines: decreased poundage next year and- support of Tobacco As sociates, Inc.,' which has been set up to find new export "butlines. ♦ Former Gov. J. Melville Brough ton ol North Carolina, general council for Tobacco Associates, suggested that the next session of the Virginia assembly will support a Jaw giving tobacco growe'rs a ,'chance to vote* on meiubership in the associates. Cotton Cro]^ Placed At 460,000 Bales Prospects on Septemiber -1 point ed toward a cotton crop of 460,- 000 bales in North Carolina for 1947, the Federal-State Crop Re porting Service said in its second forecast of the crop or this sea son. This estimate is the same as that made on August 1 and re presents an increase of 20,000 bales over" last-year’s crop. It is 137,000 bales less than, the 10- year (1936-45) average. ^ Reports from growers on Sep tember 1 did not indicate any change in the prospective yield of 357 pounds of lint per acre fore cast August 1, Such a yield, while 13 pounds less than that harvested a year ago, is nine pounds better than average. The acreage of cotton for harvest in North Carolina this year wa^ placed 619,000 acres, compared with 570 acres harvested last year and the 10-year average of 828,000 acres. Production of cotton in -the U- nited States is now forecast at 11,849,000 bales, which iS 5,000 bales above the August 1 esti mate. This is 3,209,000 bales great er than the national production in 1946, but 541,000 bales below the 10-year average. 0- 1 For alfalfa to be succes^ul, It must be.planted, within a few weeks. Early planting aids deve lopment of root system whidi is so important to the crop. would spend a .(major portion of North Carolinand South Caro lina gravvers voted recently to tax themselves ten cents an acre for support of the’ associates under legislative acts enabling the refer- i endum. • . - ' his tr;:- -f 1;n,;\ .5..L-oughout the flue-cured Belt, explaining the work of Tobacco Associates and providing whatever help ' is needed by growers. / Tobacco Associates, formed by farmers, warehousemen, bankers, fertilizer manufacturers, merch ants, export dealers and others interested in production and con- 'sumption of flu-cured tobacco, overwhelmingly approved by' farm-owners, tenants and share croppers in a Referendum last July. The Referendum, called by the General Assebablies of North and South Carolina, resulted in a vote of 125,602 in favor to 1,191 against a 10-cents per acre as sessment to support the Tobacco Associates program. Morgan, born on a toibacco farm near Cary, Wake County, was graduated from North Carolina State College in 1931, with a de gree in Agricultural Education. He taught agriculture in Dover High School after graduation, and in 1935 he was named Assistant (^unty Agent of Craven County. A year later he was made County Agent there and in 1938 became a field representative\Jor AAA, leaving that agency in 1^9 to as sume the Johnston County Agent post. ' ■ 0 Mgatherin^ Only eight defendants faced Judge Henry (MdDiarmid in a shorter than usual session of Hoke county recorder’s court Tuesday morning. Walter Barefoot, white, got a 30-day sentence suspended on payment of the costs, ■Sam McRae, colqred, was char ged with assault and larceny of a purse by Louise Green, colored. In another case Sam McRae was the prosecuting witness, charg ing that Ben. Green and Louise Green had assaulted him wMh a deadly weapon with intent to kill him. Ben Green was cleared and Sam.McRae and Louise Green were each found guilty of affray. Each got 30 days suspended on payment of,'the costs. George Williams, colored, got 30 days suspended on payment of the costs for operating' a semi trailer with no tail light. Preston Moore, colored, was feund guilty of giving Jack Pope a bad check for $56. Sentencje was 30 days to be suspended on pay ment of the costs and payment of the check. He appealed to Su perior court and posted a $150 bond.. Walter Bullard, Indian, got 60 da3"s suspended on payment of SlOO and the costs for driving di'unk. . Frank Williams, white of Rae ford, pleaded guilty tp>=.a charge of giving •!:. P.^ Jones, treasurer of the Motor Bearings & Part* Co. of Fayetteville, bad checks. Sentence was 30 days suspended on payment of the costs and paj— ment of the checks. ^^0 Local Chamb^ NowHa$58 Paid-Up Members BOARD HEARS NA-OONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NAMES SECRETARY FarmBareaa Holds Annual Meeting, Fidi Fry RICHARD NEELEY IS ELECTED PRESIDENT FOB NEW YEAR The Harvest Day Ingathering for Raeford Methodist Church will be held on Thurs&ay, October 23. Wje will follow the usual custom" of serving barbecue and chicken salad at both lunch and supper, and will have our regular auction sale. All monies raised will go to the Church Building Fund in honor of the veterans of World War II. Mrs. H. A. Camerop is genera! chairman for the Church. LEGION FETE TOMORROW ^ ^GJyde Upchurch; Jr., coinman- der of the local American Legion post, this week again .reminded legionnaires of the picnic supper the post win hold at 5:30 Friday afternoon at Clyde’s pond. He said that all members and pros pective memibers of the post were invited to come and bring their wives and friends and picnic bas kets. Poole’s Medley BY D. SCOTT POOLE Last Sunday’s Sunday School Lesson was headed differently in different Sunday School Litera ture. In one publisher’s paper it was headed “Earning and Spend ing”, and in another the, heading wajS” “The Use and Abuse of Wealth”. (Humanity cannot get along well without honesty, truth and fair dealing one with anotiier. Tliese produce harmony and happiness. ANNOUNCES FIGURES QN SAVINGS BOND SALES J. L. MteNeill County Chairman of the U. S. Savings Bonds Divi sion for Hoke County, announced today, aocordii'ng to information received from Allison James, State Director of the U. S. Savings Bond Office in Green^oro, sales of U. S. Bonds for the period Au gust 1 thrbuigh August 31, for Hoke county totaled $11,039.75, all E Bonds. .. 0 NEW COMMISSIONER Mrs. W. Rt Barrington, who has been a , justice of the pe^ce and local American Red Cross repre sentative since the death of her husband some time ago was last week appointed U. S. District Com- miissiioner for the Middle North Carolina District. The appointment is for four years and was made by Federal* Judge Johnson J.. .Hayes on Sep tember 111 at Federal court ""'in Rockingham. I The,lessons did strees the nec essity of EARNING. Paul taught that he who does not work should not eat. Good (Joctriae, that. •.frr Honesty is essential* to the wel fare of the community, and a dead beat is a hindrance to those who are industrious, for he eats the bread of idleness. potatoes ■ are doing fine, it is thought. ' Just after the "Civil War folks planted large crops of sweet po tatoes and from July through the fall many had only potatoes, fried side and coffee. And they seemed to enjoy life as well as they ever did. People love money too well and just now the prices of^some es sentials are too high. The Charleston earthquake was caused by a volcanic eruption supposedly 30 miles at sea, on the 31st of August, 1886. There are not many islands in the Atlantic ocean caused from volcanic erup- ions. But the Pacific ocean is al most an archipelago, a sea full* of islands. One reason the Japs gave our forces so touch trouble was be cause they knew their way through those islands, an^ our boys had to learn. Pre^yterians at the meeting of Synod last week, barred the marriage of Pre^ytmans and Catholics. Good idea, I think. Housewives are up. in rebelliion against high prices, and when the women taice up arms, they .effect changes; and unions are opening stores for'‘their accomadation in the food line. We are' trying to LIVE at home. Irish potatoes w^e not a very good crop this year, but sweet I know families who had no meat but game trapped and killed around Drowning Creek swamp. If you are sufficiently hungry anything is good. However, most people could change from game to home raised fowls and animals, and they had milk and butter in abundance! An ad: Lost, one pig sow last week. G- W. Brown. Somebody just about sold that pig sow for 27.75 cents per pound on the Fay etteville market. Lacy Clark, chairman of the membership conunittee of the Rae ford Chamber of Comm.erce, re ported to the board of directors on Tuesday night that there are now 58 me.Tibei's of the organiza tion and that tr.e group had some thing over SllOO in the treasury. Clark stated that no personal so liciting of memoers had been done so far, those joining have done so in response to a letter which was mailed to most businesses of the county. He said that the Chamber welcomed individuals gs members and wished''^em to be informed that the memberships rnay be tak en ,by himself, Neill A. McDonald, Marpn Gatlin Israel Mann or Paul Dickson. The board, at their meeting in the coonmiissioners room at the- courthouse, named Paul Dickson temporary secretary of the organ ization until a suitable person with more available time can be em- plqj'ed. ■ Guests of the group-was Paul W. Conant, national affairs ad- vi or for the United States Cham ber of Commerce. Mr. Conant was for 22 ^ycegrs a- Cham'oer. of Commerce $fe^tary beore g ing with the-National chamber, and he talked with the board at some length about the problems of o.- ganization -and about various plans for civic improvement. He was sec retary of the chamber of c&.mimerce at St. Petersburg and Lake Wales, Florida, for 10 and five years re^- spectivel}', and of the Charleston.' S. C. chamber or seven years. He made the point tliat a Chamber! of Commerce must produce to' survive and emphasized the pur-, pose of a Chamber of Commerce,' “To Promote and Protect BuSi-; ness.” He then pointed out the'^ many and varied activities in and around a commifnity which, di-' rectly or indirectly, do".promote! and protect business. j liVlr. Conant. also ■ spent a fewj minutes talking about National i Affairs, a subject he is employed to 'talk about by the national (Camber. The rnain point of his talk on this subject was that bus inessmen owe it to themselves and their country, to keep up with the laws that are being made and to express their thought-out views on them to the laiwonakers. (President Crawford Tliomas ap pointed a committee for one pro ject Tuesday ni^t and the group plans to complete its' first year program and make it public to the very near future. Considerable assistance on this program was given by Mr. Conant. New members during the week are Upchurch Milling & Storage Co,, Colonial Stores, Inc., (Pen der’s), White-Tex (Mills, Raeford Oil.Co., and Carl Slorris. J. M. Pendergrass Dies On Saturday; Buried At Shiloh I was made to say, why I jcio not know, that the Uiuion Hcnne- (Continued on bock pago) J. M. Pendergrass, * Well known farmer of 'Quewhiffle township, passed away at 9:30 o’clock last Saturday night after a long and lingering illness. He Was 58 years of age. The deceased was a resident of this county for over forty years. Funeral services were conducted at four o’clock Monday afternoon at Shiloh Presbyterian church at Montrose by the Reverend A. D. Carswell, a former pastor, now of Lee County. Burial follow^ in the cemetery there. He is survived by his wife, two dau^ters, Mrs. Reuben Webb and Mr» Horace Walters; one son Charles Pendergrass, kti of this county; his motba, Mrs. Hattie Pendergrass, and two sistera. Hoke County lost, one of its most valuable farmer citizens when J. M. Pendergrass passed on over the weekend. He was endued with the basic philosophy of soil con servation. He practiced soil con servation to the letter on his own farm, and was a source of help and inspiration to all who knew him. He was an outstanding far- rner and throu^ him other far mers learned to enrich their soil and grow better crops. *’* ' ’Thirty-three farmers will go on the*" tour to Beltsville. Md. next week. They wiU review the re search work being cai;ried on by the U. S. Department of Agricui- ■ 'fL;V‘* . hire, wd visit points of intoesi to Washington,' D. C. Those going on tour are: R. D. Strother, I. L, Newton, Jdm Parinr, N. H. G. COontinued «o, beck ... The Hoke County Farm Bureau , held its annual meeting lYednes- day of last week at the Armory in Raeford. A fish ■ s'oipper was served by the Farm- Bureau to • more than 150 , farm men and women. After the fish fr-v. an interesting p'rogram. "was held in the Arm.ory which was presided over by the retiring .president. Arch McEaefa- ern. Officers were elected to serve during the coming year as follows: Richard Nealey, President; H. B. Walters,, Vice-President; and E. C. Smith, Jr., Secretary and Trea surer. The 1 Board of Directors were reelected as follows: J. W, Hasty, J. M. Norton, I. L. Newton, C. H. Marks, John Parker, N. F. Sinclair, C. L. Thomas, and M. D. lYates. A. C. Ediwards, farmer of Greene County and Chairman of the House Agriculture Comniittee in' the' last Legislature, made the main address. Pie warned the farmers against the possible 1932 conditions that may co.m.e if Sout-■ hern farmers do n:: band togeth er into a strong farm, organization. It was pointed pu: "hat Southern farriiers-'only mace uo 13 rierceht of ihe total mem.'..crsh:’o in the ^ I Farm.- Bureau. He stated that next year Congfetfi Would prob ably. act on eontiauing support ■prices for cfasic Agricultural coni-"" modities only farmers joined , Farm Bui;eau or other farm, or ganizations that would fight for the far.T.ers' rights. John Eagles.. Field Representa tive of the State Farm Bureau, to^ of the funtion of the State and National Farm Bureau. He stated that farmers must band together to get tlmir fair share of .the Na tional ihcome. He pointed out that there (were over 62,000' m.embers in North Carolina last year, and that a goal of 100.000 members had been set for this year. Hoke County’s s’nare of this quota is 47,1. There 'should be several hun dred more'than this. The new officers and Directors have launched . a membership campaign to obtain the county quota. Membership committees have been set up in each town ship and are now at work. The Chairman of each township cMn- mittee is: J. W. Hasty, Allendale; I. L. Newtijn, Antioch; J. M. Nor ton, Blue Springs; L D. Brooks, Little River; Jdm Parker, Mc- Lauchlin; E. R. Pickier, Queurtuffie 'Tomimie Upchurch, Raeford; and N. H, G. Balfour, StonewalL T. O. Moses is County Chairman. Re ports coming in from several, com- nitteemen indicate that farmers are jpining rapildly. is • ’ y. t. ■-it?-